Fear The Walking Dead Season 1 DVD is executive produced by Kirkman, Erickson, Gale Anne Hurd, and David Alpert, with Erickson to serve as showrunner.In December 2014, it was confirmed that the spinoff would take place during the same zombie apocalypse depicted on The Walking Dead, but in a different location, later confirmed to be set in Los Angeles.In September 2013, AMC announced they were developing a companion series to The Walking Dead, which follows a different set of characters created by Robert Kirkman.In September 2014, AMC ordered a pilot, which was written by Kirkman and Dave Erickson, and directed by Adam Davidson.